Idle Oppo questions

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/25/2020 at 10:35 • Filed to: None

In this photo of somebody behaving badly at the ‘Ring I posted the other day , can anybody identify what country the Rover operator is from? The Bug and the Opel are from Euskirchen and Steinburg Stormarn, but I don’t think the Rover is sporting a German number at all - and it’s not likely a Brit, given military lights, paint, LHD, and bumper overriders.

Who here has enough background in Euro plates of the ‘60s and ‘70s to make an ID? I’m asking because I legitimately don’t know, and it’s bugging me.

DISCUSSION (19)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 10:42

Part of the problem, obviously, is that the characters are 80% illegible. That being said, on the assumption that the first character might be “B”, I checked Belgian plates, which used the “B” before it was cool. Didn’t seem to match up to the numbering scheme. It could be “G94R37".

dofphish > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 10:45

I’m still trying to figure out if that rover driver is so good he is riding on two wheels on purpose or is that a crash in action? Either way it’s a brilliant photo. He has a smile upon zoom so my guess is this is intentional and he used the turn to get it started. Wow. Melted my brain.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 10:47

Well I can tell you with near 100% certainty that they’re not Canadian.

i86hotdogs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 10:50

My keen eyesight sees the first two characters as a 6 and a 9. If my perception is accurate:

nice

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 10:54

The bumperettes, lights, bridging plate, Union Flag, canvas and bonnet spring clips sure do make it look like British MOD standard 2a. The real telltale would be the rear crossmember, but alas.

Perhaps a military plate, a vehicle built for and stationed in Germany ? But both of my ex-MOD Land Rovers had military plates assigned ‘letter letter number number space letter letter.’ One from Northern Ireland and one from UK but with a metric sp eedo.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
06/25/2020 at 11:07

The LHD had me thinking it was intended for NATO/European service - definitely has the look of ex-mil. I wasn’t sure if the actual Brit service ones used continent-side were LHD or whether that would be the mark of a Belgie or Spanish or German military one. I know some other services did buy them outside MOD. If that’s a Union Jack that matches official stickers, I supposed it would have to be MOD - I wasn’t sure if it was a UJ or a double X of some kind.

In any event, as the services of those countries would likely frown on Ring shenanigans, I suspect that’s a question of where it originated more than where it was registered just then - which was the question I’m pursuing. I didn’t think it was a NATO plate per se, and your note seems to bear that out.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 11:12

I’m guessing British Forces in Germany plate: http://plates.lachs.net/col/for/

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 11:16

looks like it old dutch plates to me

Kinja'd!!!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
06/25/2020 at 11:18

Right number of spaces, but doesn’t appear to be the right sequencing. Of course, might have been different pre-’82.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 11:19

I’d be interested in knowing where the plate is from as well. I thought it was the Union flag because of the lack of flag on the curve of the wing top. It may well be a black X on a yellow background which I’ve seen before but can’t remember the significance of. If it is the Union flag, it’s in an incorrect location for a convoy vehicle (the only reason it should have the bumperettes). But these rules are very much guidelines. It could be a base operated tow vehicle with bumperettes on because there was a spare pair lying around, then the flag got slapped on.

You never know.

I’ll do a bit of research on the plate though.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
06/25/2020 at 11:20

Right count, right sequencing, right colors. Very likely. No dashes, but probably long ago that one was allowed to make up one’s own plate with the correct numbers. Very likely.

Don’t know why I hadn’t checked that possibility yet.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
06/25/2020 at 11:22

Farscythe has a possibility: if the plate is 69ER37, it would match up with the old Dutch standard. Hadn’t checked yet to see if there’s any special coding in that for more info.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 12:32

Yeah, colouring of the plate lends me to think it’s LHD MOD and not NATO related.

Svend > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/25/2020 at 13:22

That is definitely a British Land Rover, almost certainly army, the Royal Navy usually has the letters ‘RN’ in the licence plate.

The yellow disc is a ‘bridge rating’ identifier.

British military vehicles can be LHD and RHD within the fleet both at home and over seas .

The licence plates are either two letters, two number, two letters or two numbers, two letters, two numbers, the lettering being white on a black back ground

Kinja'd!!!

unless it’s a base or off base vehicle such as military police (some have civilian markings) which have the military style lettering on a civilian style plate.

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
09/04/2020 at 10:23

You about, lurking, or just haven’t been on much in a month?

I thought I’d mention for your amusement that I’ve ordered build manuals for SI and SII Toylanders, as I anticipate building several.

https://www.toylander.com/

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/04/2020 at 11:33

I am around enough to pick up my 1no. six-monthly notification, and to read a couple of aviation and oppositeblog posts. The rest I can do without.

Ha! Those are quite delightful. My priority should be my full size SIII, but I would follow your fabrication and build with interest.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
09/04/2020 at 11:45

As best I understand it, the panels are meant to be MDF or something of the kind, but I’m expecting to modify the design to use 1/8" ABS paneling, vacuformed, so it’s a bit more reproducible in quantity. Need to build the vacuform table for building Daleks anyway - that’s another story.

As to discourse and “doing without”, there’s a certain degree of acrimony and/or axe-grinding from some posters that erodes my posting regularity a bit (as too the ads for other Gawker blogs) , but I haven’t given the place up. Nor intend to.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/04/2020 at 12:17

I certainly haven’t given the place up, mostly for the few contributors that actually put some effort into informative articles or some garage wizardry.

My immediate thought on looking at the size of the finished product was s team bent ply. Charming, workable and durable. Doubtless though , in the long run, more labour intensive than ABS.

Can I assume that you intend to be inside the Dalek?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
09/04/2020 at 12:36

Well, as it happens, a mate of mine and I have the electronics plans and somewhere around, most of the components to build the ring modulator used for Dalek voice tones... and I also have a semi-functional Genesis of the Daleks Dalek which has (unfortunately) had the head dome lost, and for which I built an Eccleston-era opening front out of HDF panels. Needs work, though, and some reengineering, and the same mate with the ring modulator bits has also got a powered wheelchair base rigged with remote control to use as a drive unit for some nu-Who Daleks if at any time we get around to building them.

Mine is actually riding on a pedal-driven chassis I built with child’s bicycle frames, which I need to rework a bit, but nevermind.

We’ve got complete plans for the Shawcraft early Who props (mine is Mk. III) and for the Eccleston/Tennant ones, though in both cases they call for construction out of plywood and not anything more unorthodox.

All that is to say that “yes”, such a Dalek would at least offer the option of human possession.